See also alpha 1998, alpha 4176, epsiloniota 284, pi 1776, tau 655, chi 135, chi 610.
[1] cf. Zenobius 5.38, Apostolius 12.89 etc.; Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.1940. LSJ s.v. po/kos, II, compares 'pigeon's milk'.
[2] Cratinus fr. 348 Kock (367 K.-A.). The entry thus far = Photius, Lexicon omicron363 Theodoridis (with other references there); also ascribed by Erbse to Pausanias the Atticist (omicron13). Erbse, however, emends the lemma for the entry to *)/o[k]nou p[l]okai/ ('braidings of Oknos') on the basis of the description in Pausanias (the Periegete) of the depiction of the unfortunate rope-braider, evidently captioned with the name 'Oknos' ('Balky'), in the paintings of Polygnotus in the Cnidian Lesche at Delphi (10.29.1), roughly contemporary with Cratinus (this, or a similar painting is also alluded to by Plutarch On Tranquility of Mind 473c, and Pliny NH 35.137 ascribes the same scene, with the character named 'Ocnus', to a later painter as well). Pausanias (the periegete) offers an interpretation of the painting as an illustration of an Ionian proverb 'tighten the cord of Oknos', in reference to people who do things that bring no benefit. It is possible, as Dover (214-215) suggests, that there were originally two proverbs that are conflated in this entry, though the notion of two separate but similar-sounding proverbs referring to scenes in the underworld (see the next note for the underworld context of the Aristophanic reference), gives one pause. See also Photius omicron360 Theodoridis.
[3] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 186.